Let’s hear it…
Screenshot from the Infinite Island comment kiosks.
In preparation for the opening of Infinite Island this Friday, we’ve just finished installing our comment kiosks. For this exhibition, we developed a couple of new components. Now, our visitors can give us general comments about the exhibition or specific comments about selected highlights. To give each comment greater visibility, we created an attract screen for the kiosk that selects comments at random and displays them with the appropriate work of art.
As always, comments can be submitted onsite using our comment kiosks or directly from the website. No matter where you leave them, all comments are visible on the website and in the gallery.
If you are coming to the exhibition, be sure to let us know what you think. Kiosks can be found on both the 4th and 5th floors near the stairwells.
bryan kennedy:
August 29th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Oh this is so great that you guys are doing this for an art show. Art always evokes such remarkable responses from people that I am always bummed that museums don’t offer so many ways to record these ideas. Way to think of your visitors in a new way.
Rock on,
bk
Shelley:
August 29th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Thanks, Bryan. We first started this back with Global Feminisms and Durand and found this way had a lot going for it. It was easier for staff to keep up with things –we didn’t have to trek down to the galleries to look at the physical books anymore which is pretty helpful in a building this large. Also, we could respond to issues quickly and write back if necessary. Visitors could check back to see responses, etc. It seemed to work pretty well and you can see the comments that were left for those two exhibitions here in the comment archives.
Nate Schroeder:
August 29th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I agree, what a great implementation – I love the general vs. the granular comments and the random “attract screen” idea… This is something we’ve been talking about as part of a potential grant project in the next few years, you can count on an email or two if that comes through!
Peter Samis:
August 29th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Way to go and kudos to our peers in Brooklyn! We’re trying out something very similar with our Olafur Eliasson show, which opens a week later here in San Francisco. Your design is clean and lucid, the artist statements or brief descriptions good. I can’t wait to see how the visitor comments populate and add dimension to the site–and to the exhibition’s meanings!
The attract loop idea is great, btw, and I like the way you integrated the Comment Guidelines as effective (but not forbidding!) terms of use.
Congrats. We’re applauding out here and we look forward to seeing and hearing more.
Best,
Peter
Brooklyn Museum: Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum » Let’s Hear It: Part II:
August 30th, 2007 at 10:30 am
[...] Shelley mentioned in her last post, Let’s Hear It, we are rolling out a new version of comment kiosks for the exhibition Infinite Island: [...]
Stephanie Pau:
September 19th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Bravo Brooklyn! I love all of the inciteful commentary on the blog. And kudos as always for the forward thinking of all of the Brooklyn Museum’s programming! To follow up on Peter’s last comment, out team at SFMOMA got our Eliasson blog up and it’s garnering a lot of wonderful visitor participation. The challenge was customizing wordpress and getting it to seamlessly mesh with our interactive feature. Check it out if you’d like, link is http://www.sfmoma.org/eliasson.
Shelley Bernstein:
September 19th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Stephanie, Peter — looks really fantastic and congrats on the deploy! LAMoCA and the Cooper-Hewitt did similar things recently — sort of using WordPress to provide full featured mini-sites to encourage discussion (for WACK! and the Design Triennial, respectively). It’s a nice approach to provide something really dynamic and a great idea. It will be fun to watch over the course of the exhibition.